Brendan J. Lyons reports in the Times Union that on Aug. 29 state Supreme Court Justice Kevin R. Bryant reversed his order from last week that exempted more than two dozen retail cannabis store applicants from an injunction that has temporarily stopped New York’s licensing processes. The judge has said cannabis regulators in New York “failed to follow the clear language of the applicable legislation” when they created a program to award conditional retail licenses exclusively to applicants with past cannabis convictions. Bryant's rulings halting the spread of cannabis stores statewide is the latest delay in New York's legal cannabis program. Very few stores are open two-and-a-half years after legislators legalized the drug, and none locally. The judge said it was their own fault as he said state regulators had implied 30 applicants were in the final stages of their application process and had met the requirements to open their stores. But he later found that many applications were not complete. Bryant said, “They have submitted a list which, by their own admission, includes licensees who are still finalizing construction and whose post-selection inspections have not been scheduled or completed.... It is also clear that an unclear number of the sites have not been inspected 'to ensure (the site) meets all the public health and safety requirements in the Cannabis Law and associated regulations.' It is not clear to this court whether any of the 30 identified licensees have completed all post-selection requirements and inspections and it should be clear that those who have not, should not have been included on the list submitted to the court as set forth in the prior order.” Bryant says the state's licensing process has been plagued with “numerous potential defects” that “have already resulted in numerous constitutional challenges to the actions.” Read more about this story in the Times Union.